Recent content by GoodLineNotSquare

We’re looking for a solution to green troughs that doesn’t involve wire brushes, elbow grease or goldfish, and our local farm materials store suggested dairy hypochlorite (at a tiny dose, of course). I do know that dairy hypochlorite is basically double-strength bleach, and did raise an...

We've just (start of the year) had post-and-3-rail around the outer perimeter of our paddocks, with sheep netting from ground to the second rail. I subsequently added electric rope around the inside of the top rail after a few - more than a few -broken rails. P&R wasn't cheap but it looks good...

We've got the Trailer Vision Digi-Max 2 with reversing and interior cameras. It works very well, especially when we have one nervous horse passenger in the 'box and one nervous horse owner in the passenger seat. I tend not to use the reversing camera except when there's a very definite obstacle...

Not that we're getting a bit twitchy or anything, but the Ticket Factory website still shows ours as still in preparation. Well, they say to harass them if there's less than 5 days to go, so come Monday I'll be on the phone. Anyone else received theirs or, like us, staring anxiously at the...

Thank you everyone for ploughing through my original essay and replying! - I asked for more details of the incident as soon as the letter arrived. No reply as yet. - Thank you for reminding me of my BHA Gold membership. Might get some use out of the legal advice line, certainly once I hear...

We've had an irritating letter from our local council, and I was wondering if anyone here has experience or pointers for how to deal with it. We have a public footpath running along the hedge in one of our paddocks, for about 50 metres, going straight from a kissing gate into a neighbour's...

Congratulations! Also, since you're already doing all the hard work associated with having a horse, you may as well share in the rewards and sit on one. :) For what it's worth, my fall into riding was caused by Mrs GLNS casually suggesting that I could just have a couple of lessons at her yard...

Our property came with a quad bike, a small tractor and a topper, and basically I'm looking to trade the whole lot in for a 4x4 Mule, and pay a contractor to do the paddocks when needed. (Backstory: Mrs GLNS refuses to drive the quad, which in any case has needed increasingly expensive monthly...

Thank you all for your comments. It looks like we'll be trying the introduction later in the spring after the paddocks have had some tlc and dried out. Hopefully the girl and boys will agree to coexist...

Contractors are 80% done, and desperate to finish before the weekend. I'll bear in the mind the motorway-spec and the sleeves ideas for next time! I'm very happy with the look of the work done so far, although it occurred to me that I didn't request a dog gate in the stock netting at the stile...

We've gone through the decision-making process of "should we?" and, as the broad consensus on this estimable forum and elsewhere is yes, mares and geldings can co-exist (with caveats), the next question is how? We've had and seen advice ranging from "the nearest they can get is staring over the...

When the owner of my regular school horse was leaving our yard, and thanks to falling out with the YO, had no intention of selling my girl to the yard. I was so horrified when I saw the advert that I more or less instantly messaged her to say nooooo, sell her to me! I had planned on at least...

As a lurch off-topic, because these things professionally interest me, I looked it up. They appear to have one patent, GB2345474B, which is due to expire in a little under two years. The patent's in the name of R. & H. Janion Ltd, which also holds the Equitrek trade marks. The patent's broadest...

I've never been sure whether my girl who's in livery is particularly fussed, until last week. A couple of us went out to the paddock to bring in some mares, but the herd were clearly in a mood to hoon around the field and not be brought in, so we stood at the fence and enjoyed the spectacle. On...

The contractors have now arrived and a large red post driver machine is crawling around the first of our paddocks. Very exciting :) We did consider piecemeal replacement, beginning with the major fence. However, we've since found two rotted-through posts (one when the gate it was attached to...